Without having anywhere to sleep maxi wakes up in the baseball park, he then gets up and start realizing what happened before and begins to stumble off, as he walks he is being followed by a car
Drug lord 1: hey young man you don't look to well
Maxi keeps walking
Drug lord 1: what's ya name son
Maxi: I ain't ya son
Drug lord 1: well I could've told you that
Maxi: you ain't have to tell me shit
Drug lord 1: got any specific destination you heading
Maxi keeps walkin
Drug lord 1: how bout you come take a ride with me kid, I can make it in your benefit, I promise ( opens the door )
Maxi stops and looks at the car
Maxi: and how you plan on doin that? Where you finna take me?
Drug lord 1: why to the top my boy( smiles and laugh )
Maxi gets in
Drug lord 1: by the way the names deuville
( extends his hand out to maxi )Maxi: max
Deuville: you part of a gang max
Maxi: no
Deuville: got a family?
Max: ( looks down )my mom died couple months ago
Deuville: father?
Max: ion know em
Deuville: hmmm, what if I told you I could make it to where you didn't have to sleep in no more baseball fields and begin to be able to feed yourself by taking whatever the fuck you want?
Max: how Yunno I was in the field?
Deuville: I seen you limp across the street last night while I was passing by and this morning you came from the same direction
Max: well it's none of your business
Deuville: you right I never judged, that's why I'm makin this offer to you
Max: and what you gain off of this?
Deuville: the satisfaction of seeing I still got enough power after so many years , besides a real boss put people in position to work, I might just need someone to take my title one day
Max: you're gonna train me to be you?
Deuville: no, I'm gonna coach you to become the real you, an alpha male
Max: and how do you know that's what I'm supposed to be
Deuville: cause you're a black man, an authentic Afro gene African, you are born to be strength and courage, the world is never in your favor because that is your strength. You don't need a god damn thing to stand over you but the alpha and omega himself jah, you are power in a vessel. An in bodied presence of survival.
Do you understand me son?Max: yes
Deuville: I'll give you time to think on that,in the meantime I'll take you by one of my spots and show you a few things, get your head on right Yunno? Get you a vision of what "could" happen alright?
Max: alright
Deuville: alright ( puts shades on )
Do you remember the break plays in the back as they leave
The lil kids who jumped the one kid running off laughing
Tera and fila post up outside again laughing
A rondom finds the dirt and mistakes it for weed and rolls it up
Tyson practice boxing
Tec talkin on the phone aggressively
The li kid who got jumped looking down a long roadTera: and Yunno this shit ain't the end of it
End
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Man Made
Short StoryStory 2 young men grow up in different perspectives in the Same area where they are heavily influenced. " two lights in a dark circle " is the moral of the whole story. The first boy ( Tyson ) is athletic and rather generous. The second boy ( maxi )...